In fact, refugees who may well have family/friends in Manitoba and who are determined enough to cross the border on foot in winter in cold in deep snow, may well make great Canadians. Welcome to Canada!

This story again shows why Trump and his supporters are wrong to get on refugees cases. These folks are going through extreme vetting, survival of a long migration, taking great risks to reach USA and now, Canada. They are the best and brightest and most determined, not like those citizens who don’t even bother to vote…

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I am a retired teacher in Canada. I taught in the subject areas where I have worked for almost forty years: maths, physics, chemistry and computers. I love hunting, fishing, picking berries and mushrooms, too.

Please explain how their problems, are our problems. Even if America were to take in a million people a year, it would never saw the humanitarian crisis of the world. Countries should solve their own problems. It is not America’s responsibility to solve the problems of the world, especially when we are not welcome.

dougman, being short-sighted, wrote, “we are taking care of the problem, by keeping them out and/or deporting their sorry asses.”

No. You are ignoring the problem, not solving it. The problems are war and economic disparity. Both are easy to fix, but it requires eternal vigilance, not neglect. Knock off Assad any set up a decent government of the people by and for the people and millions of Syrians could go home. Reverse the depredations of the American Fruit Company, the CIA, the War On Drugs, etc. and folks would be a lot more likely to stay at home…

Let’s see how many of those “refugees” who can barely speak the local language of your country will have found jobs some months from now. Isn’t even the local population that speaks the local language perfectly already having difficulties finding a manual labor job? (answer: yes)

He advocates, “Let them in!” but wants to build a fence on his own property.

No, you fool! It’s the government’s responsibility to take care of the problem, not Pog’s. As it is widely established, people should happily let the government take care of the world’s problems (the more, the merrier) so the government gets bigger and more awesome, instead of refraining from taking care of the world’s problems. And all this will happen without an increase in taxes because the government has magical revenue sources and is generally awesome. It’s all good.

And when Pog’s taxes increase to pay for the food and shelter of those “refugees” the government will provide, he ‘ll conveniently blame it on evil capitalism.

Kurkosdr wrote, “Manual labor workers who can barely speak your language (if they speak it at all) will find a manual labor job within months (from the few new ones offered) and this will lead to a huge boost to the economy, and you won’t have to feed them and house them from your taxes for years. It’s all good.”

That’s a worst-case scenario, not the norm at all. Even in that case, they will have children socialized in our modern school-systems and lead more normal lives. It’s all good.

So… your taxes will be used to provide shelter and food for those refugees for at least a while.

Let’s see how long it takes for (say) 70% of then to find a job…

Previous experience in Germany isn’t that promising though.

I mean… Let’s be honest here: Immigrants with a university degree arrive legally because your country needs them to fill in vacant positions that require a university degree and hence they are allowed to enter legally. Immigrants without a university degree who are only good for manual labor arrive as “refugees” (aka illegally). If people who speak the local language of your country have a problem finding manual jobs, how easy it will be for refugees? Aka, for how long will they have their shelter and food expenses covered by your taxes?

But anyway, I guess you have the right to believe whatever you want to believe. Manual labor workers who can barely speak your language (if they speak it at all) will find a manual labor job within months (from the few new ones offered) and this will lead to a huge boost to the economy, and you won’t have to feed them and house them from your taxes for years. It’s all good. Hip hip hooray!

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My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.